This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities.
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1 Introduction: History and Politics of Big Science in Europe |
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2 What Kind of Europe for European Big Science? |
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2.2 What Role for the European Economic Union (EEC) and the European Union (EU)? |
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3 History and Science of Research with Synchrotron Radiation |
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4 Founding the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 1977-1988 |
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4.2 Intergovernmental Arrangements |
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4.3 Putting the ESRF in Place |
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4.4 The Role of France and Germany |
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4.4.1 "Embedded Bilateralism" |
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4.4.2 National Agendas in France and Germany |
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4.5 Towards a Convention for the ESRF |
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4.6 Concluding Discussion |
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5 Establishing the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL), 1992-2009 |
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5.1 The Transformation of DEST |
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5.2 The TESLA Proposal for a Linear Collider |
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5.3 From the Free-Electron Laser at the TESLA Test Facility to FLASH |
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5.4 Political Commitment to the European XFEL |
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5.5 Foreign Partners and In-Kind Contributions |
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5.6.1 German-Russian Collaborations in Science |
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5.6.2 Nanotechnology, Big Politics and the European XFEL |
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5.8 Concluding Discussion |
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6 The Other Europe of Big Science: Historical Dynamics and Contemporary Tendencies |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Katharina C. Cramer is a historian, specialised in the history and politics of science and technology as well as the power of knowledge and innovation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She publishes on the topics of Big Science, research infrastructures and the politics of science, technology and knowledge.
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